What is the max timeout for a prefect task? I have a task that will run for 2-5 mins. I couldn’t find anything on the pricing page, google, or discord when I searched for “max timeout.” Is there a better term to search for?

I think there is none actually.

Do I have to do anything to make zombie killer not kill my job if it’s still running 2+ mins? “The

Zombie Killer

service is responsible for handling zombies, which Prefect defines as tasks that claim to be running but haven’t updated their heartbeat in the past 2 minutes (Prefect Cloud) or 10 minutes (Prefect Server).”

No because the task is deployed with a heartbeat and the heartbeat should signal that there is still communication. But the default heartbeat can sometimes die for long processes. If it does, you can look here. But this is more like 1 hour

gotcha, so the timeout would only be due to some kind of flakiness from the worker (not due to my job, or maybe because my job destroyed the server somehow )

Each task just sends API calls to update it’s state so we practically charge on API calls

ohhh I didn’t realize we provide our own compute, my bad. so we shoulder the infra cost

Yeah this is called the hybrid model in our docs